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Birth right citizenship is wrong. We have to stop it.
2 Apr 2026 7:34 am
Huey » 02 Apr 2026, 7:32 am » wrote: ↑ Birthright citizenship in the United States was primarily created to ensure that formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendants were recognized as full citizens following the Civil War. It was formally established through the 14th Amendment in 1868 to overturn the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which had ruled that Black people could not be U.S. citizens.
was primarily
And secondarily?